Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 5:47 PM CDT for Kanabec County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2000, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanabec County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1313 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMPX 082248 SVRMSP MNC065-082315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 547 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KANABEC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 547 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN KANABEC COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HINCKLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Martin | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville, Sibley | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 62 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.